Ron Richards

Partner at Fortium Partners
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Elmhurst, Illinois, United States, US

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Experience

    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Partner
      • Oct 2022 - Present

    • United States
    • Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Technology Officer
      • Feb 2020 - Jan 2022

      Joined Hangar A to lead the scale of the product platform and products development team from first users of the logistics platform to partnership with Southwest Airlines. Made significant contributions as a software engineer in Python/Django backend. Joined Hangar A to lead the scale of the product platform and products development team from first users of the logistics platform to partnership with Southwest Airlines. Made significant contributions as a software engineer in Python/Django backend.

    • Entertainment Providers
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Chief Technology Officer
      • Jun 2005 - Jan 2020

      AMI Entertainment operates the 2nd largest digital jukebox network in the world, with over 30,000 locations across North America, Europe and Africa. Joined AMI Entertainment in 2005 just after the launch of AMI’s digital jukebox network. Brought all software development in-house by founding a technology group in suburban Chicago, building the staff through initial hiring and organic growth. Today the jukebox network is fully connected, offering real-time communication with a suite of mobile applications and cloud based management software. AMI’s mobile app network supports over a million registered users who make pay-for-play purchases of music across 90% of AMI’s locations in North America. Through connected video screens, AMI’s software offers in-venue screen based entertainment consisting of music videos, gaming content, advertising and in-venue promotions created by location staff and our installation partners. As CTO, responsible for software product development, product management, network operations and internal IT functions. Show less

    • Chief Technology Officer
      • Nov 2003 - Jun 2005

      Developed the first commercially deployed version of MediCopia, a nursing work flow application which provides patient safety checks in hospital settings to ensure nursing procedures are performed on the correct patient. Significant hands-on development in C++ and Perl. Developed the first commercially deployed version of MediCopia, a nursing work flow application which provides patient safety checks in hospital settings to ensure nursing procedures are performed on the correct patient. Significant hands-on development in C++ and Perl.

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • VP Engineering
      • Oct 1996 - Nov 2003

      Joined as the 3rd engineer and left as the VP of Engineering after assembling a 60-person development team. The Apropos platform was a pioneer in the concept of unified communications to contact centers, blending phone, email and web communication into a unified queue to customer support agents across the globe. Joined as the 3rd engineer and left as the VP of Engineering after assembling a 60-person development team. The Apropos platform was a pioneer in the concept of unified communications to contact centers, blending phone, email and web communication into a unified queue to customer support agents across the globe.

    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Engineer / Development Mgr
      • Jan 1989 - Oct 1996

      Developer on Easytrieve and Realia product lines Developer on Easytrieve and Realia product lines

    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Mar 1983 - Jun 1987

Education

  • The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
    MBA, Finance, Marketing
    1987 - 1991
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    BS, Physics, Computer Science
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Computer Science

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